Re: glyph selection for Unicode in browsers

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 15:32:43 EDT

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> There is no necessary relationship
> and, indeed, it is possible to conceive of a user wanting to apply, for
> instance, the typographic conventions of German to a language other than German.

Indeed, if one is doing early modern Swedish, that is exactly what one
wants, IIRC.

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